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Alfred Rosa and Paul Eschholz

Clear, concise, and user-friendly, The Writer's Brief Handbook puts a wealth of essential information at the student writer's fingertips. Tabbed chapter dividers and flat-opening combed binding make it easy to use, while its superior reference features and two-color highlights give students fast access to the explanations and examples they most need. Includes more on the writing process, word processing tips throughout, sample student and professional papers, and a separate chapter on the library. The second edition includes the latest documentation coverage on electronic sources, separate tabbed chapters for MLA and APA, and a new chapter on format.

This versatile resource offers more useful information in under 400 pages than any handbook available. Its coverage of the writing process contains far more examples than comparable books, so students have a firm grasp of essential writing techniques, including paragraphing. Its treatment of research provides full chapters on using libraries, the research paper, and the most current MLA and APA documentation styles, each exemplified by an annotated student paper.

Other strong points of The Writer's Brief Handbook include coverage of particular benefit to today's diverse student population. The text deals extensively with both sexism and bias in language and devotes a full chapter to ESL problems. There's also more support for today's computerized students, with a full section on word processing and additional computer tips integrated at every stage of the writing process.

PRAISE FOR THE WRITER'S BRIEF HANDBOOK

"I consider Rosa and Eschholz the best handbook of its type."

"Truly a handy book. The frequent use of student models and examples is commendable."

"I looked at several short, reference books and found this one to be the best."

"Very clear explanations and good examples. Rosa and Eschholz understand how first-year student writers work."

"An excellent text. Its major strengths are the emphasis on the writing process, the student and professional examples, and the ESL section. The word-processing tips are the best I've seen. The treatment of biased writing, especially sexist language, is exemplary. The sections on how to use the library and the MLA and APA documentation styles are superior."

The Writer's Brief Handbook, Fourth Edition, 2002, Alfred Rosa and Paul Eschholz, ISBN 0-321-08931-6.

Exercise Book to accompany The Writer's Brief Handbook also available.

CD-ROM also available.

Published by Longman Publishers , New York, NY 

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The Writer's Brief Handbook

Canadian Edition

Alfred Rosa, Paul Eschholz, and John Roberts

Clear, concise, and user-friendly, The Writer's Brief Handbook, Canadian Edition, puts a wealth of essential information at the student writer's fingertips. It covers all stages of the writing process in depth: generating ideas, drafting, revising, and editing.

The Writer's Brief Handbook, Canadian Edition, 1996, Alfred Rosa, Paul Eschholz, and John Roberts,
ISBN 0-205-26528-6.

CD-ROM also available.

Published by Allyn & Bacon Canada, 1870 Birchmount Road, Scarborough, Ontario, M1P2J7

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Language Awareness, 8/e

ed. Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark
From politics to rap music, advertising to cyberspace. . .no other anthology gathers together so many fascinating subjects and newsmaking issues under the rubric of language. The eighth edition of Language Awareness: Essays for College Writers keeps proving the power of language, with 38 timely new selections and more writing support than similar readers. This best-selling classic will give students a fresh appreciation of how language impacts their own writing.

Since the first edition of Language Awareness appeared in 1974, its purpose has been twofold: to foster an appreciation of the richness, flexibility, and vitality of the English language and to encourage and help students to use their language more responsibly and effectively in speech and particularly in writing. Because of these purposes, Language Awareness has been used in a variety of courses over the years. Its primary use, however, has been and continues to be in college composition courses. Clearly, many instructors believe as we do that the study of language and the study of writing go hand in hand.

The study of language has many facets; so, while covering a broad spectrum of topics (including the history of English, contemporary debates on cultural diversity and the use and misuse of Standard English, and the language of prejudice and euphemism, for example), we have tried to concentrate on those areas in which language use exerts the widest social effects--politics, advertising, media, and gender roles. Opening students' eyes to the power of language--its ability to shape and to manipulate one's understanding, perceptions, and cultural attitudes--is, we believe, one of the worthiest goals a writing class can pursue.

"This book's strengths lie in its language-oriented approach; its interesting and lively articles; its 'Writers on Writing' and 'Cyberspace' sections; its diversity; its ability to raise issues that students are likely to find relevant and compelling; and its enlightened approach to race, ethnicity, and gender."

Language Awareness: Essays for College Writers , Eighth Edition, 2000, ed. Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark, ISBN 0-312-19768-3

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Models for Writers, 6/e

ed. Alfred Rosa and Paul Eschholz

Used by over 200,000 students through five editions, Models for Writers has achieved its bestselling status by consistently including popular and inviting readings to serve as model essays.

Models for Writers offers seventy-one short, lively essays that represent particularly appropriate models for use by beginning college writers. Most of the selections are comparable in length to the essays students will write themselves, and each clearly illustrates a basic rhetorical element, principle or pattern. Just as important, the essays deal with subjects that we know from our classroom experience will spark the interest of most college students. In making our selections, we have sought a level of readability that is neither so easy as to be condescending nor so difficult as to distract the reader's attention from the rhetorical issue under study. Most of the essays have been written in the last ten years. Drawn from a wide range of sources, they represent a variety of contemporary prose styles.

PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION

"The new readings will add zest and will appeal to my urban and older students.... I greatly appreciate Rosa and Eschholz's writing about theses, beginnings, endings, paragraphs, etc.,.... In fact, I love reading their chapter introductions, and I'd like to meet these guys just to thank them for writing so intelligently and interestingly about such things as diction and unity...."

"The material covered by many of the essays is good in recognizing current issues as well as reflecting cultural diversity and gender....Certainly, the new edition is something to anticipate."

Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition , Sixth Edition, 1998, ed. Alfred Rosa and Paul Eschholz,
ISBN 0-312-15310-4

Instructor's Manual available on request.

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Subjects/Strategies: A Writer's Reader

ed. Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa

Subjects/Strategies: A Writer's Reader, Ninth Edition, is an anthology of essays for college writing courses. Each of the first nine chapters focuses on a particular rhetorical strategy: narration, description, illustration, process analysis, comparison and contrast, division and classification, definition, cause and effect analysis, and argumentation. In the final chapter, "Combining Strategies," we present four essays that illustrate how writers often use several rhetorical strategies together.

PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS EDITION

"The variety of writing strategies was thorough and complete, and the essays accompanying each section were exciting and fun to read! Great selections!"

"A very good choice of examples illustrate each strategy. . . a well-organized book."

"Subject and Strategy. . .covers the different writing styles I teach my students. Subject and Strategy has it all."

"Subject and Strategy provides ample examples of various modes and suggestions for writing assignments."

"Excellent introductory explanations of rhetorical strategies."

Subject/Strategies: A Writer's Reader , Ninth Edition, 2002, ed. Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa,
ISBN 0-312-39109-9

Instructor's Manual available on request.

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Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers

ed. Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa
Praised in previous editions for their breadth of genres, subjects, and styles, the thematically organized reading selections in the fourth edition have been refined, resulting in a concise and even more selective group of essays, short stories, and poems. The thirty-five new selections that appear in this edition emphasize contemporary authors while still acknowledging the classics. This edition of Outlooks and Insights also contains a substantially expanded "Introduction: On Reading and Writing" that now includes coverage of documentation and using sources.

Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers, Fourth Edition, 1995, ed. Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa,
ISBN 0-312-10110-4

Instructor's Manual available on request.

Instructors may order an examination copy from Bedford/St. Martin's Press:

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